Writing About Dance

One of the most difficult challenges in writing about dance is to describe it in a vibrant way. These exercises offer various ways to describe and analyze dance and can serve as preparation for writing a dance critique.

Dance Improvisations

How many body parts? is a great activity you can start using right away.

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery 2nd Edition eBook

Imagine you are wringing a towel while keeping it in a straight line. Visualize the facet of the navicular spinning on the head of the talus. Notice that the medial aspect of the transverse tarsal joint is moving more than the lateral. After twisting one foot, compare the feel and balance of both feet in a standing position.

Beginning Tap Dance With Web Resource

The ball�change is one of the most used dance steps.

Beginning Tap Dance With Web Resource

Throughout the history of tap dance, tap dancers have created many styles and aesthetics.

Beginning Tap Dance eBook With Web Resource

The ball�change is one of the most used dance steps.

Complete Guide to Primary Dance Web Resource

Assessment for learning is �the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there.�
Assessment Reform Group 2002.

Discovering Dance eBook With Web Resources

Dance has been called the universal language; you live in a world that dances.

Experiencing Dance 2nd Edition eBook With Web Resources

Close your eyes. Visualize a traditional dance pose or step from a specific culture. Open your eyes and show it to your classmates. Ask them to identify the country by your demonstration of the pose or step.

Safe Dance Practice

Formal research on dance session progression and sequencing in general, let alone for specific genres, is comparatively limited, although class plans, guides to styles, vocabularies, glossaries and how-to tutorials are abundant, both in print and online.